<ul> <li>This edition includes the following editor&#39;s introduction:<i> </i><i>The Travels of Robert Louis Stevenson</i></li></ul><br />&quot;St. Ives&quot; (AKA <i>St. Ives: The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England</i>) is an unfinished novel created by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in 1897 that was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter, Mrs. Strong, as a diversion from his debilitating illness. Written while Stevenson lived in Samoa, &quot;St. Ives&quot; was the author&#39;s last title.<br /><br />Set during the Napoleonic Wars, &quot;St. Ives&quot; narrates the adventures of the dashing Viscomte Anne de Keroual de St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier enlisted as a private under the name of Champdivers, after his capture by the British and during his stay as a prisoner in Edinburgh Castle.